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"The Young Carthaginian" There is more to Hannibal than elephants and the Alps. The struggle between Rome and Carthage was at first for empire, and afterwards for existence on the part of Carthage.Hannibal defeated the Romans at Trebia,Lake Trasimenus, and Cannae,and all but took Rome. Malchus,Hannibal's cousin,witnesses the political corruption which typifyed Carthage in its decline. As political parties fight among themselves for supremacy, young Malchus begins to question the usefulness fighting for a debased civi Gov. Mr.Hentys classic work, the young Carthaginian, will expose readers to the manners, customs, religion, politics and Italian Geography.
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